Musical rocking-chair



A. ZUBRYD.

MUSICAL ROCKING CHAIR.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 9, 1921.

Patented. Oct. 18, 1921..

UNrrsn STATES PATENT orrics.

ANTONI ZUBRYD, OF JERSEY GITY, NEW JERSEY.

MUSICAL ROCKING-CHAIR.

Application filed March 9, 1921. Serial No. 451,001.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, ANTONI ZUBRYD, a citizen of Ukraine, residing at Jersey City, in the county 'of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Musical Rocking-Chairs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in rocking chalr attachments and has particular reference to a device carried by a rocking chair and associated with a music box on the rocking chair to operate the music box during the rocking motion of the chair and adapted for attachment to rocking horses and cradles.

The invention further includes improvements in the art over the patent granted to me on August 1, 1916, Patent No. 1,193,215 for improvements in chair operated fans.

With the above general objects in view and others that will become apparent as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel form, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described in connection with the accompanying drawings, and in which like reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is a fragmentary side elevational view of a rocking chair and attachment therefor constructed in accordance with the present invention showing the floor lever pivoted to the chair rocker and operating the music box carried by the chair seat.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view taken on line IIII of Fig. 1 showing the spring connection between the operating mechanism and the chair rocker.

Referring more in detail to the accompanying drawing, there is illustrated a rockmg chair carrying a music box with mechanism carried by the chair and adapted to be operated during the rocking motion of the chair to operate the music box, the chair embodying back and front bars 2 connected by a seat 4, side brace bars 5 and rockers 6,

the structural elements of the rocking chair being of any well known type.

A floor lever 7 is pivotally mounted at one of its ends upon the laterally projectin pin 8 carried by the inner face of one o the rockers 6 and carries a roller 9 at the free end thereof.

A transverse shaft 23 is journaled at its ends in the side brace bars 5 and has fixed thereto a ratchet wheel 24. A rod 25 provided with a rack portion 26 has the lower end thereof pivoted to the floor engaging end of the lever 7. A bar 27 extendin parallel with the rod 25 has an angle portion 28 pivoted as at 29 to the rod 25 and carries a raclt portion 30 having the teeth thereof extending in a direction opposite to the teeth of the rack portion 26, the free ends of the bar 27 and rod 25 being connected by the spring 31, The bar 27 has a spring connection 32 with the upper face of the rocker 6 ad acent the forward end thereof, normally to hold the rack members in their lowered position with the lever 7 in constant engagement with the floor. A pulley 17 is carried by the shaft 23 and has a belt connection 18 with the pulley 16 upon the end of the shaft projecting from the music box 14.

In the operation of the device, the spring 32 holding the rack members 25 and 27 in a substantlally fixed position, the ratchet wheel 24 carried by the rocking chair moves between the ratchet portions 26 and 30 of the ratchet members, and as the teeth of the ratchet members project in opposite directions, continuous rotary motion is imparted to the shaft 23, the spring 31 permitting slight relative, movement of the ratchet portions26 and 30 so that one of said portions will escape the teeth of the wheel 24 while the other ratchet member is functioning.

While there are herein shown and described the preferred embodiments of the invention, it is nevertheless to be understood that minor changes may be made in the form, combination and arrangement of parts without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as hereinafter claimed.

What is claimed as new is:

1. In a rocking chair of the type described,

a floor lever pivoted at 'one of its ends to a rocker of the chair, a shaft journaled transversely of the chair, a ratchet wheel fixed to. said shaft, a ratchet rod engaging said ratchet wheel and having the lower end thereof pivoted to the free end of the floor lever, a second ratchet bar having one end pivoted to the first named ratchet bar with the teeth thereof extending in a direction opposite to the teeth of the first named ratchet bar and engaging the opposite side of the ratchet wheel, resilient connections between the free ends of the ratchet bars, a

music box carried by the chair bottom and connections between the transverse shaft and the music box.

2. In a rocking chair of the type described, a floor lever pivoted at one of its ends to a rocker of the chair, a shaft journaled transversely of the chair, a ratchet wheel fixed to said shaft, a ratchet rod engaging said ratchet Wheel and having the lower end thereof pivoted to the free end of the floor lever, a second ratchet bar having one end pivoted to the first named ratchet bar with the teeth thereof extending in a direction opposite to the teeth of the first named ratchet bar and engaging the opposite 'side116 of the ratchet wheel, resilient connections between thecfree ends of the ratchet bars, a music box carried by the chair bottom, connections between the transverse shaft and the music box and a spring connecting the second named ratchet bar to the rocker for maintaining engagement of the lever with the floor.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

ANTONI ZUBRYD. 

